SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public -- and viral -- new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system.
In a trio of studies, Michigan State University education expert Alyssa Hadley Dunn and colleagues examined the relatively new phenomenon of teachers posting their resignation letters online. Their findings, which come as many teachers are signing next year's contacts, suggest educators at all grade and experience levels are frustrated and disheartened by a nationwide focus on standardized tests, scripted curriculum and punitive teacher-evaluation systems.
Teacher turnover costs more than $2.2 billion in the U.S. each year and has been shown to decrease student achievement in the form of reading and math test scores.
"The reasons teachers are leaving the profession has little to do with the reasons most frequently touted by education reformers, such as pay or student behavior," said Dunn, assistant professor of teacher education. "Rather, teachers are leaving largely because oppressive policies and practices are affecting their working conditions and beliefs about themselves and education."
The study quoted a teacher in Boston: "I did not feel I was leaving my job. I felt then and feel now that my job left me."
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday April 07 2017, @05:52PM
Everyone should be happy to serve. Unfortunately, many governments have pre-empted that whole service thing.
I would have said "all governments", but you may be able to point to an exception. If so, I suspect that the exception is temporary, as centralization of power leads those in charge to isolate themselves from the consequences of failure. And a good government will in time be replaced by a bad government, no matter what method is used for selecting the powerful. It used to be said that one king out of seven would be a good king, one would be an idiot, one would be evil, and the rest mediocre. Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon monarchy did better than that, as they elected a king from all relatives of the current king (I think out to cousin). But they certainly had some failures. (None up to Britain's George III, but he didn't start out crazy. OTOH, he was one of those responsible for Parliament gaining power, even if that wasn't his intent.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.